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ID:	142821The L7A3 105mm main gun and appliqu armor packacge, along with track skirts, offered improved protection and firepower relative to the factory model M48.


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    Arisgator, a modernized, amphibious upgrade for M113

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      • Originally posted by Draq View Post
        I would kick a puppy and slap a toddler, if that would make that music go away.

        Ugh.

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        • Originally posted by ArmySGT. View Post
          I would kick a puppy and slap a toddler, if that would make that music go away.

          Ugh.
          My apologies. I didnt have to sound on

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          • Just about the only thing 1940s Germany was good for was coming up with wacky weapons. One I ran across today for the first time is the Fliegerfaust/Luftfaust, which was supposed to be a man-portable anti-aircraft rocket system. It didn't really work, but it's at least interesting in theory. The Fliegerfaust B was a 9-tube launcher that weighed 6.5 kilograms (loaded), firing spin-stabilized 20mm high-explosive rockets. The firing method, per Ian Hogg, was that five rockets would fire from non-adjacent barrels, followed a tenth of a second later by the other four rockets, giving a dispersal pattern intended to improve the odds of a strike against an enemy aircraft. The warhead was the standard 20mm AA shell. Reloads were carried in a canvas "bucket" carried on the right hip via shoulder strap, and looked a bit like a speedloader for a revolver. It was barely deployed before the end of the war (three were photographed in rubble in Berlin), and accuracy problems were never ironed out, which made it of dubious effectiveness as an AA weapon.
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              • I have that. Look under the description for the Sturmgewehr 44 in German Assault Rifles.
                I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes

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                • Originally posted by rcaf_777 View Post
                  You could also put the Air Defense Anti-Tank System (ADATS) although is was adopted by the Canadian Army, it was originally to be a US Weapon System. This system would morph into Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle (MMEV) which was canceled in 2007

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_De...ti-Tank_System
                  I have this too, on Canadian Tracked Antiaircraft Vehicles.
                  I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes

                  Entirely too much T2K stuff here: www.pmulcahy.com

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                  • Originally posted by rcaf_777 View Post
                    You could also put the Air Defense Anti-Tank System (ADATS) although is was adopted by the Canadian Army, it was originally to be a US Weapon System. This system would morph into Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle (MMEV) which was canceled in 2007

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_De...ti-Tank_System
                    When the US was experimenting with the ADATS system, they put it on a Bradley chassis for better mobility. Then they went crazy and put it on a Bradley chassis, retained the Bradley turret minus the TOWs, with the ADATS missile tubes on the sides of the turret, and then topped the whole quivering mass off with an M-2HB sub-turret.

                    I have both on my Best Antiaircraft Vehicles That Never Were page.
                    I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes

                    Entirely too much T2K stuff here: www.pmulcahy.com

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                    • Forgive us Pmulcahy11b, we're not worthy 😢

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                      • Originally posted by The Dark View Post
                        Just about the only thing 1940s Germany was good for was coming up with wacky weapons. One I ran across today for the first time is the Fliegerfaust/Luftfaust, which was supposed to be a man-portable anti-aircraft rocket system. It didn't really work, but it's at least interesting in theory. The Fliegerfaust B was a 9-tube launcher that weighed 6.5 kilograms (loaded), firing spin-stabilized 20mm high-explosive rockets. The firing method, per Ian Hogg, was that five rockets would fire from non-adjacent barrels, followed a tenth of a second later by the other four rockets, giving a dispersal pattern intended to improve the odds of a strike against an enemy aircraft. The warhead was the standard 20mm AA shell. Reloads were carried in a canvas "bucket" carried on the right hip via shoulder strap, and looked a bit like a speedloader for a revolver. It was barely deployed before the end of the war (three were photographed in rubble in Berlin), and accuracy problems were never ironed out, which made it of dubious effectiveness as an AA weapon.
                        Running the rocket warhead through FF&S, it should be either damage -1 or 1, Burst 4, Pen Nil (it works out to Dam 0.40, Burst 4, Pen -4 for a TL 5, 2cm HE warhead).
                        Writer at The Vespers War - World War I equipment for v2.2

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                        • Not sure where this came from not sure if it is movie prop or something the the US Army was testing.

                          Are those AGM-114 Hellfire or AGM-65 Maverick missiles
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                          • Appears to be a mock up of a Hellfire II.

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                            • Are you sure the picture and truck are pre 2000 I think
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                              • Originally posted by rcaf_777 View Post
                                Are you sure the picture and truck are pre 2000 I think
                                The truck is a CUCV (a military version of a Chevy 2500) and the mount looks like tripod for a TOW in ground mount.

                                I think it is a clever photoshop. There has been on again off again prototypes for a ground launcher version of the hellfire.

                                The missile is a Hellfire and the mount looks like the hard point for a Apache.

                                I think it is a clever photoshop with elements taken from several sources.

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